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I ' - . -he---& msny yaung people faIIina.' somewhere on the political spectrum between extreme left and mid-centcr. After a year or so of hassling and ideological indigestion, the CPUSA dropped out of the alliance in favor of buoying up its own, then sagging and now defunct, W. E. B. A short time later, after a number of successes in takeover operations of the SDS, PLP also quit the shaky alliance. the past several years then the Student Mobe has been under qole guidance and control of the SWP. direct youth appendage of the S W P and in Marxist jargon the youth van- guard (numbering at present probably 2,000 kids), directs the activities of the Student Mobe; and YSA'ers occupy all significant leadership posts within this broad-based group. In practical terms then, as for guidance and direction, when one sees in print Student Mobe, it is safe to think . DuBois Club. For The Young Socialist Alliance, the Marx-Trotsky-SWP. .. The WSA can more completely be named the Students for a Democratic Society, Progressive Labor, Worker Student Alliance (SDS-PL, WSA). uency) generally in New England, the WSA,dropped the first bomb at Chicago in the summer of 1969 that destro.)ted the national unity and viibility of the then mushrooming SDS. -The WSA is Maoist in philosophy and still holds strongly to the Marxisfteaching tliat to pull off a suc- cessful revolution a movement m u L a t t r a c t and conqcllipt the worker (defined as rank-and-file as opposed to labor 1i'ade;s which the SWP favo r s ) . . Drawing its principal stren'gth (in terms of constit- f ' *.. ' The'conflict then that poses a very'kerious threat to the unity of the communist-cum-peacenik movement in America is simply one of strong and dogmatic ideological collision. One of the S W P watchwords is patience, another is "single issue strategy. 'I It is the SWP design to first use their mass of kids (the Student Mobe), a known factor, for continued mass demonstration similar to last November's successful turnout at Washington (and lesser but still good show at San Francisco and keep it peaceful in the hope of attracting even larger numbers of tilting moderates who would be turned off by violence. Secondly, the S W P leaders adhere (and usually have in the past) to a single issue at a time. They view America's soft spot at present as Southeast Asia and that is the wound that should get the salt. Student Mobe leaders (really YSA'ers) have publicly conceded that once they have ended the war they'll pick another target, then another until patient pressure brings the nation down on the heads of those who control the means of production. The SWP, in order to reach the long-term goal, further subscribes to the classic United Front philosophy. cians help one whit they should be used co-opted o r not.* If liberal politi- . 2 *